Victor Pierre Huguet

Victor-Pierre Huguet studied at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille with Émile Loubon, who specialized in landscapes with animals. Later, he studied with the Orientalist painter Eugène Fromentin in Paris. He took his first trip to Egypt in 1852. The following year, he accompanied the marine painter Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager on his expedition to paint scenes from the Crimean War.